National Security Agency

In Mark Joseph Oliver's sculpture "Telecommunication," an old television has crash-landed on a beige living-room couch. The fibers of the moth-eaten furniture are scorched black like charcoal around the impact site, and protruding from the TV are dozens of white acrylic rods grouped so they resemble Superman's Fortress of Solitude. Familiar movie scenes play on the television — Gene Wilder singing "Pure Imagination" from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," John Wayne's conversation with Natalie Wood from the classic western "The Searchers" — which cast a glow of purplish green against the acrylic rods.

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Operating covertly, like District 13 -- which is known for making nuclear weapons and is the base for the rebellion -- this agency is not someplace you just visit. With advancing intelligence and top-secret information, it may be best to assume this place (off Baltimore-Washington Parkway) doesn't...

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When it comes to poking the bear, and to depicting American history as the cyclical wising-up of its idealists, Oliver Stone remains the man with the plan, and the bullet points.
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Showtime made many fans of "Twin Peaks" very happy on Monday when it announced it was reviving the cult favorite as a limited series to air in 2016, set in the modern day.
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The Redmond, Wash.,...

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Apple has issued an update for Mac users that fixes a security hole identified last week that is known as the "Goto fail" bug.
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The razor-sharp satirists behind "The Onion" and a former director of the embattled National Security Agency are among this spring's speakers in the Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Affairs Symposium, a series of free public lectures.
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The National Security Agency collects nearly 200 million text messages per day from around the world as part of a program code named Dishfire, according to a new report based on data leaked by Edward Snowden.
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WASHINGTON — Judges on the federal government's secret surveillance court have strongly rejected any proposed changes to their review process, putting unexpected pressure on the White House on Tuesday as President Obama prepares a speech aimed at...

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